VOW FULFILLED.
A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE.
(by cabls—nuaa association—coftiuqht) (AUSTRALIAN AND H.B. CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
MADRID, December 25. The tragic story of a mother's sacrifice has just been revealed. Senora Leonora Grau was deeply affected at her husband's death. She Be~ Eeeched the famous Virgin del Carmel to protect her eon fighting in Morocco, and vowed to offer her own life on condition that the son was spared. The son returned*, and was demobilised last Monday. The mother "welcomed him with transports of joy. They supped gaily together, and the mother put the son to bed as in the days of his childhood. She prayed oyer him and blessed him, saying: "The Holy Virgin del Carmel brought you back. Now it is my turn to accomplish the vow I made if she spared your life." The son attached no importance to these words, being in complete ignorance of the tragic nature of them. His mother spent the night in prayer before the Virgin's image, and then drowned herself in the river Terue, where her body later was recovered.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 14
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